José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. His new book Transimperial Anxieties was published in June. From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation … Continue reading Excerpt: Transimperial Anxieties
Claire M. Wolnisty is an assistant professor of history at Austin College and the author of A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America (Nebraska, 2020). When I began research in U.S. Civil War Era history, … Continue reading From the Desk of Claire M. Wolnisty: A Different Manifest Destiny
Today, February 19, is National Anthropology Day. The study of humankind is a fascinating and constantly changing area. Below are our most recently published titles in anthropology. Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel Edited and with an … Continue reading Reading List: National Anthropology Day
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